The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are time-bound development targets that address many dimensions of poverty, such as hunger, disease, inadequate water supplies and lack of education. This pu…
For sisters in Islam, Musawa was in some ways a vindication of a long and difficult struggle to find liberation within our faith and to translate into collective action our belief in a just God.
Adopted on 31 October 2000, UNSCR1325 acknowledges the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and girls and calls for the adaption of a gender perspective to consider the spe…
Australian women workers were granted equal pay in 1969. Nearly thirty years later it is rare, but not unheard of, for women to be paid a lower base wage than men doing the same jobs. The equal pay…
In this issue, there are several contributors who have shared the ways in which they have sought to engage men in their porgrammes on reproductive rights and domestic violence with varying degress …
The essays in this volume address theoretical and ethnographic issues concerning oral traditions and women's speech in diverse South Asian communities in North and South India and Nepal. The author…
NHRCK activities of korea for gender equality
Women's organizations assess U.S. Government Actions on Implementing the Beijing platform, 1995-2000 to mark the fifth anniversary of the Beijing meeting and to review the progress made on implemen…
This report documents diverse strategies adopted by community groups in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Nepal to negotiate women’s rights in the context of culture, while grounding the strategie…
When war breaks out or disaster strikes, we move. As professional humanitarian workers, our job is to provide assistance and protect people during the most traumatic moments in their lives; when th…
This book is a collection of edited versions of the papers presented at the conference. In exploring various constitutional themes affecting women, these papers either expressly or implicitly raise…
The women's movement needs to utilize and strengthen all mechanism viable for such causes, and at all levels. To most women's organizations the world over, including Thailand, the international hu…
For thematic evaluations, the review has highlighted methodological problems associated with treating gender mainstreaming as a goal, rather than as a means to the longterm objective of achieving g…
The labor force ratio of female Japanese employees is characterized by an Mshaped curve. As shown in Fig. 1, the number of female workers has tended to decline when women are in their late 20s thro…
Gender equality is protected by our national constitution. It is one of the most important tenets of democracy that are enshrined in our constitution. Those tenets are important for us to implement…
Violence and discrimination against women continues with impunity in many parts of the region and continues to be one of the most visible manifestations of the unequal and unjust power relations be…
This booklet seeks to provide answer to these questions.Prepared as a companion to the Sida publication Striking a balance it is concerned with how development cooperation can promote gender equali…